Profile of Nonprofit Sector

Canada is home to the second largest nonprofit workforce in the world. It is a dynamic sector that contributes $112 billion to our economy each year.
It is a network of 161,000 nonprofit and voluntary organizations, 2 million paid employees and nearly 12 million volunteers.
The value of volunteer contribution in Canada is estimated at $14.1 billion dollars.
In 2007, Canadians volunteered almost 2.1 billion hours, an equivalent to 1.1 million full-time jobs (Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating 2009 [CSGVP]).
In 2007, 12.5 million Canadians (46% of the population aged 15 and older) volunteered their time to charities and other nonprofit organizations (CSGVP).

According to the 2003 National Survey of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations (NSNVO), there are approximately 45,000 nonprofit and voluntary organizations in Ontario, which account for about 28% of the nonprofit and voluntary organizations in Canada
In Ontario, close to one million people were employed in the nonprofit sector in 2003, representing about 1/6 of all employed Ontarians
Volunteers frequently outnumber paid employees at nonprofit organizations. Over half of all nonprofit and voluntary organizations in Ontario have no paid staff.
Ontarians contributed nearly $2.3 billion of their money to nonprofit organizations in 2000, and almost 394 million hours of their time -- over 1/3 of all the volunteering and donating which occurred in Canada that year

London has over 1150 nonprofit and charitable organizations
It would take 6 full time employees to replace the work of volunteers in each of London’s nonprofits.
Volunteers contribute over $303 million dollars a year with their time as their hard work and dedication to the nonprofit sector continue to improve our community.
More than 1/3 people living in London volunteer for a charitable or nonprofit organization.

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